E. E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Edward and Rebecca
Haswell Clarke Cummings. Intensely creative, Cummings was also a fine artist,
playwright and novelist; his life and art were tightly interwoven. Known for
typographic innovation, Cummings controlled both the look and the content of
his poems.

A resource not to be overlooked is The E. E. Cummings Society. Its journal, Spring, is published annually, and includes papers presented at the American Literature Association's conference, original poetry, news, and notices of events relating to the subject E. E. Cummings. Critical essays, so often requested here, are found within its pages, as are reproductions of Cummings' artwork.

Friedman, in E.E. Cummings A Collection of Critical Essays, gives 1932 as the year of Cummings' marriage to Marion Morehouse. However, in Dreams in the Mirror, Kennedy gives 1934 as the year of Cummings' divorce to Anne Barton, after which Marion Morehouse was considered Cummings' wife. Kennedy also states there is uncertainty as to whether Cummings and Morehouse actually held a wedding ceremony.

Famous Poets And Poems - A large collection of Poems and Quotes from famous Classical Poets. Read and Enjoy Poetry!
Grouped by themes and especially useful for teachers,
Poems For All Occasions links to many poetry resources (including the above). Thanks to Sarah Morris for bringing it to my attention.Two poems
by Cummings, a man who had fallen among thieves and anyone lived in a pretty how town, viewed from a med/lit POV are found here at NYU's Medical Humanities pages. Pretty interesting site; poke around.E. E. Cummings page at The Academy of American Poets. This page includes several of Cummings' poems and an audio file of Cummings reading "why must itself up every of a park."
The following are not E. E. Cummings links, but are somehow related . . . in
my
mind, at least.
Harvard University WWW Home Page
.
E. E. Cummings had a special relationship with Krazy Kat . . . his favorite
comic strip. Elisabeth Crocker's site addresses Krazy Kat's gender-bending, and
has annotated Krazy Kat comics as well.
George Herrmiman's Krazy Kat
.
Where Cummings' friends and acquaintances (and many more) hang out . . .
Great Writers
.
Cummings explored
Cubism
in his paintings, but I have found some disagreement on the carry-over of this
style to his poetry. Richard Kennedy's Dreams in the Mirror
clearly relates the Cubist influence in Cummings' poetry; George Haines IV's essay
: : 2 : 1 ( E. E. Cummings A Collection of Critical Essays), disagrees, claiming this misunderstands "either Cummings or Cubism" (p.29). Here's another link about Cubism:
Cubism from the WebMuseum.
If only I would write according to Mr. Strunk's guidelines . . . this is site
pre-E.B.W.
The Elements of Style.

Thanks to Sangman Lee at Stanford University for providing a quote from the preface
of E. E. Cummings Revisited, by Richard S. Kennedy, 1994. Here Kennedy states Cummings' name should name be capitalized, and that the E. E. Cummings Society has been working to correct the misinformation that Cummings had an all lower case version of his name legalized.

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